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  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    9 June 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    12 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other support roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

Grade 6 or Teachers scale if qualified

What skills and experience we're looking for

North Ridge is an Outstanding specialist support high school for students aged 11–19 with complex special educational needs. We’re a fast-growing school based across two sites, with a Sixth Form Hub in Cheetham Hill that’s home to several exciting student-led business enterprises.

One of these businesses isCup & Cake– an award-winning café, open to the public during term time and run by our sixth form students. The café serves delicious, seasonal meals (often featuring fresh produce from our student-run allotment,The Plot) and offers students meaningful, real-world experiences in catering, customer service, and enterprise.

We are on the lookout for someone who can take the lead at Cup & Cake — someone who loves food, cares deeply about young people, and believes in the power of hands-on learning.

See Job Description for further details

What the school offers its staff

See what we can offer document for further details

Flexible working opportunities

We operate a flexible working policy which is available to all staff, alongside a suite of family friendly policies to provide support and the management of a work/life balance.

Further details about the role

Please see our school website for a video clip of our students at the cafe.


Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@northridge.manchester.sch.uk

CVs are not accepted.

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Additional documents

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About North Ridge High School

School type
Special school, ages 11 to 19
School size
202 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 19
Ofsted report
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Phone number
01615530200

North Ridge is an Outstanding specialist high school for pupils with persistent and complex special educational needs, aged 11-19 years.

We are a fast developing school split across two sites in North Manchester. Our main site is located in Higher Blackley, and our 6th Form HUB in Cheetham Hill. The 6th Form HUB incorporates a range of student led businesses serving our school and the local community.

Arranging a visit to North Ridge High School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@northridge.manchester.sch.uk.

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